MIAMI.- The worrying anti-Semitic acts in the United States and the world worry governments, police forces and community institutions, and the watchdog group Anti-Defamation League (ADL), founded in 1913 and based in New York, publishes an important report that denotes this form of discrimination.
In fact, hostility towards Jews, based on a combination of religious, racial, cultural and ethnic prejudices, is a form of racism that was fueled over the centuries and had its maximum expression during the Nazi occupation of Europe.
Given the terrorist acts of Hamas and Hezbollah in Israel, the military raids of the Israeli Army in Gaza and southern Lebanon, as well as Iran’s extensive campaign against the Hebrew country, seem to fuel anti-Semitism.
The ADL ensures that it does not confuse general criticism of Israel or anti-Israel activism with anti-Semitism and to this end states that “legitimate political protests, support for Palestinian rights or expressions of opposition to Israeli policies are not included in the Audit.”
According to data offered by ADL “there were 6,274 incidents of anti-Semitic aggression, harassment and vandalism in the United States during 2025, with an average of 17 incidents per day.”
Although this total represents a 33% decrease from 2024, it “remains considerably higher than years prior to the Hamas massacre on October 7, 2023 in Israel.”
The report notes that “even as overall incidents decreased, physical assaults increased 4% and assaults with a deadly weapon increased 39%.”
In fact, three people were killed in anti-Semitic attacks last year: “two in the May 21, 2025, shooting outside the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, DC, and another person died from injuries sustained in the June 1, 2025, arson attack during the Run for Their Lives” in Boulder, Colorado.
Commenting on the report, ADL President and National Director Jonathan Greenblatt said: “The 2025 audit, which shows it was one of the most violent years on record for American Jews, is a reminder of how dramatically the threat landscape has changed. Numbers that five years ago would have horrified us are now our daily lives.”
Main findings
Assaults: 203 incidents were classified as assault, which is a 4% increase compared to 2,024 (196 incidents).
Incidents of assault with a deadly weapon increased to 32 in 2025, up from 23 in 2024.
At least 300 people were victims of incidents of aggression. It was the first year since 2019 that Jewish people were killed in the United States in anti-Semitic attacks.
Vandalism: 2,068 incidents (a 21% decrease from 2024) were classified as vandalism.
Harassment: 4,003 incidents (a 39% decrease from 2024) were classified as harassment.
Geographic scope: Anti-Semitic incidents occurred in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. The states with the highest levels of incidents were New York (1,160), California (817) and New Jersey (687).
Universities
One of the most striking aspects is harassment in universities and just a year ago ADL called to implement training programs and guarantee clear policies to respect cultures and religions. He even analyzed the situation and evaluated the practical conditions in university institutions.
Indeed, in 2025 the Incidents at university institutions decreased, in part because universities addressed how to deal with these events.
ADL recorded 583 anti-Semitic incidents on college campuses, which is 66% fewer than in 2024 when 1,694 incidents were reported.
Statements
As we mentioned before, hostility towards Jews is based on a combination of religious, racial, cultural and ethnic prejudices and was fueled over the centuries.
“This did not start in the 21st century or the 20th. Just compare the caricatures from 200 years ago with the ones we see now and we see that it is the same,” the diplomat and former ambassador of Israel in Chile, senior vice president of International Affairs of the Anti-Defamation League, Marina Rosenberg, told DIARIO LAS AMÉRICAS.
Another ADL report indicates that “46% of adults in the world have high levels of anti-Semitic attitudes. They believe in Jewish conspiracy theories. They control this and that,” Rosenberg noted.
And he added: “one would hope that today, with all the information that is so easy to obtain, it would be known that these are only conspiracy theories against Jews.”
Regarding the negative effect that the Israeli Army’s attacks on Gaza may have produced, Rosenberg states that “obviously criticizing the government of Israel can be completely legitimate. Just as we can criticize the government of Spain, the United States, Argentina, wherever. The problem begins when we go from legitimate political criticism to discrimination against an entire nation. Discrimination against the citizens of that country and those who practice Judaism.”
